Analysis of Cyber Anarchy Squad attacks targeting Russian and Belarusian organizations

About C.A.S C.A.S Cyber Anarchy Squad is a hacktivist group that has been attacking organizations in Russia and Belarus since 2022. Besides data theft, its goal is to inflict maximum damage, including reputational. To this end, the group's attacks exploit vulnerabilities in publicly available...

What’s New in Qualys VMDR: 2024 Edition

Let us quickly recap the features released in Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response VMDR in 2024 and understand their use cases and benefits. Every quarter, the Qualys Product Management team collaborates with multiple customers worldwide, develops innovative solutions that addres...

Qualys Achieves 100% Major Step Detection in the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations, Enterprise

How Qualys Transformed from Risk Leader to EDR Powerhouse In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, ransomware continues to dominate as one of the most significant cybersecurity challenges. To help organizations evaluate their defenses against these sophisticated threats, the MITRE ATT&CK...

Elevate Cyber Defense with Qualys Advanced Hunting

Introduction In today’s cyber threat landscape, proactive approaches such as threat hunting have become key in any organization’s defense strategy, identifying and tackling threats before they become an incident. That is why Qualys is delighted to introduce Advanced Hunting , our threat-hunting...

GHSA-J5HQ-5JCR-XWX7 github.com/rancher/steve's users can issue watch commands for arbitrary resources

Impact A vulnerability has been discovered in Steve API Kubernetes API Translator in which users can watch resources they are not allowed to access, when they have at least some generic permissions on the type. For example, a user who can get a single secret in a single namespace can get all...

GHSA-X7XJ-JVWP-97RV RKE2 allows privilege escalation in Windows nodes due to Insecure Access Control Lists

Impact A vulnerability has been identified whereby RKE2 deployments in Windows nodes have weak Access Control Lists ACL, allowing BUILTIN\Users or NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users to view or edit sensitive files which could lead to privilege escalation. The affected files include binaries, script...

RKE2 allows privilege escalation in Windows nodes due to Insecure Access Control Lists

Impact A vulnerability has been identified whereby RKE2 deployments in Windows nodes have weak Access Control Lists ACL, allowing BUILTIN\Users or NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users to view or edit sensitive files which could lead to privilege escalation. The affected files include binaries, script...

Rancher Remote Code Execution via Cluster/Node Drivers

Impact A vulnerability has been identified within Rancher where a cluster or node driver can be used to escape the chroot jail and gain root access to the Rancher container itself. In production environments, further privilege escalation is possible based on living off the land within the Rancher...

GHSA-XJ7W-R753-VJ8V Exposure of vSphere's CPI and CSI credentials in Rancher

Impact A vulnerability has been identified in the way that Rancher stores vSphere's CPI Cloud Provider Interface and CSI Container Storage Interface credentials used to deploy clusters through the vSphere cloud provider. This issue leads to the vSphere CPI and CSI passwords being stored in a...

Exploit for Improper Authentication in Microsoft

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Akira ransomware continues to evolve

Akira continues to cement its position as one of the most prevalent ransomware operations in the threat landscape, according to Cisco Talos' findings and analysis. Their success is partly due to the fact that they are constantly evolving. For example, after Akira already developed a new version o...

Out-of-bounds Write

libzephyr.so is vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write.The vulnerability is caused due to improper handling of data sizes in the getattsearchlist function in bluetooth/host/sdp.c, which can lead to a crash when passing a dataelem of size greater than 10...

CVE-2024-6137 BT: Classic: SDP OOB access in get_att_search_list

BT: Classic: SDP OOB access in getattsearchlist...

CISA Releases Analysis of FY23 Risk and Vulnerability Assessments

CISA has released an analysis and infographic detailing the findings from the 143 Risk and Vulnerability Assessments RVAs conducted across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in fiscal year 2023 FY23. The analysis details a sample attack path including tactics and steps a cyber threat actor...

Developing and prioritizing a detection engineering backlog based on MITRE ATT&CK

Detection is a traditional type of cybersecurity control, along with blocking, adjustment, administrative and other controls. Whereas before 2015 teams asked themselves what it was that they were supposed to detect, as MITRE ATT&CK evolved, SOCs were presented with practically unlimited space for...

How to Use Tines's SOC Automation Capability Matrix

Created by John Tuckner and the team at automation and AI-powered workflow platform Tines, the SOC Automation Capability Matrix SOC ACM is a set of techniques designed to help security operations teams understand their automation capabilities and respond more effectively to incidents. A...

Not Just Another 100% Score: MITRE ENGENUITY ATT&CK

The latest MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations pitted leading managed detection and response MDR services against threats modeled on the menuPass and BlackCat/AlphV adversary groups. Trend Micro achieved 100% detection across all 15 major attack steps with an 86% actionable rate for those steps—...

Not Just Another 100% Score: MITRE ENGENIUTY ATT&CK

The latest MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations pitted leading managed detection and response MDR services against threats modeled on the menuPass and BlackCat/AlphV adversary groups. Trend Micro achieved 100% detection across all 15 major attack steps with an 86% actionable rate for those steps—...

GHSA-Q6C7-56CQ-G2WM Rancher's RKE1 Encryption Config kept in plain-text within cluster AppliedSpec

Impact This issue is only relevant to clusters provisioned using RKE1 with secrets encryption configuration enabled. A vulnerability has been identified in which an RKE1 cluster keeps constantly reconciling when secrets encryption configuration is enabled please see the RKE documentation. When...

Rancher does not automatically clean up a user deleted or disabled from the configured Authentication Provider

Impact A vulnerability has been identified in which Rancher does not automatically clean up a user which has been deleted from the configured authentication provider AP. This characteristic also applies to disabled or revoked users, Rancher will not reflect these modifications which may leave the...